I've currently got a CD-RW and a DVD-ROM. I'm getting a DVD-RW. I never use both current drives at the same time and can't really think of any reason that I would, except if I wanted to burn two things at once or on the fly, neither of which I do.
Are there any other reasons you guys have for having say a DVD-ROM and a DVD-RW working together? The main reason I want to get rid of one is cause I'm upgrading my system and want to keep an IDE drive for backup / storage. Most new mobos I believe only come able to support two IDE drives max, optical or otherwise, so I'd need to restrict myself to one DVD-RW and one IDE HDD.
If necessary I could buy an IDE controller or SATA adaptor but I also want to keep things to a minimum in my case.
What I'm mainly getting at was can DVD-RW drives read DVD data equally as well as DVD-ROM drives? If the answer to that is yes and nobody can think of any other reason that I might need two optical drives, then I'll ditch the DVD-ROM. I'm also trying to think if there are any circumstances under which I might be forced to burn on the fly e.g. if the file in question could not be ripped onto the hard drive for any reason?


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) This is because quite often I've found that some discs that have been written don't always pickup as having data on in the rewritable drives, but I use a lot of different dvds etc.




